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Yeah, but Facebook has a way of magnifying those cultural issues and causing narcissistic behavior in people who would not otherwise be narcissistic. I think t

Yeah, but Facebook has a way of magnifying those cultural issues and causing narcissistic behavior in people who would not otherwise be narcissistic. I think that not making friend counts or like counts such a prominent feature on the site would go a long way toward helping that. Even on Kickstarter projects I get to see how many hundreds of friends on Facebook the organizer has. I think to myself that if I were to create a Kickstarter project I would have to go join Facebook and start collecting friends, lest I look unpopular. This is very unappealing to me.

katzgrau 14y ago
I'd think most Facebook users don't care about the # of friends they have. Some definitely do, but I'll go out on a limb and say those are the shallow types I'd rather not be friend with anyway (but whether they compose the majority of the world is probably a good debate!). A lot of my post was truly speaking from the heart. Facebook is great. I check it once daily to see what my friends are up to or if anyone messaged me. # of friends? Who cares. There's a 1:1 relationship between my Facebook friends and the people I'm friends with in real life. Some celebrities accept anyone as a friend, but you have to take that for what it is: self promotion and relationship building. That Facebook account is probably unusable.